Quotes of: Merely Keyword

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.

The Purloined Letter

Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final purpose.

Perpetual Peace

I don't want to merely exist, Parker. I want to live. I want to leave the world with that one sweet moment.

Ten Below Zero

To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.

Under Western Eyes

Funny how "question" contains the word "quest" inside it, as though any small question asked is a journey through briars.

Under in the Mere

By way of watching your mind, you will see life beyond a mere set of habits, emotions and beliefs.

Unbound Intelligence: Discover the God Within

There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat.

The Weight of Glory

To the wizard death is merely a belief.

The Way of the Wizard: Twenty Spiritual Lessons for Creating the Life You Want

My ex-girlfriend was exquisite, while my current girlfriend is merely quisite. The ex always makes the past seem more excellent than the present.

Xazaqazax

'The Queen Is Dead' is not merely the Smiths' best album, but it is one of those timeless, perfect, inexhaustible artifacts that could only have been made by a gang of sullen, sun-deprived rock & roll boys fighting off adulthood tooth and nail.

Rob Sheffield

The British system denied any role for human creativity, and instead argued, that if man merely followed his hedonistic desires, pursuing pleasure and avoiding pain, objective laws would naturally guide society to achieve the best allocation of wealt...

Robert Trout

In fiction, as in real life, love might inspire acts that are at best foolish and at worst life-threatening, but in the best romances, love is the final, secret ingredient that turns mere mortals into heroes and heroines.

Sarah MacLean

The mere suggestion that not speaking for a day can give you an appreciation of the social isolation that comes with the experience of disability, particularly those whose impairments prohibit them from communicating verbally, is insensitive at best.

Stella Young

For some people a thing may be right, and for others it may be wrong. There is no greater truth to morality -it is merely an opinion.

Dear Killer

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.

H. L. Mencken

A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.

Marie Curie

Pro-lifers have long been castigated for bringing private values into the public square. But actually it is the pro-abortion position that is based on merely personal views and values.

Nancy Pearcey

People credit me for making the universe interesting when in fact the universe is inherently interesting, and I'm merely revealing that fact. I don't think I'm anything special for this to happen.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The newspapers of the twenty-first century will give a mere 'stick' in the back pages to accounts of crime or political controversies, but will headline on the front pages the proclamation of a new scientific hypothesis.

Nikola Tesla

Tonight I light the candles for all the souls who were merely pawns in the game we call rules of engagement and everything remains as it never was

Nynke Visser